(m)
Enable women to obtain affordable housing and access to land by, among
other things, removing all obstacles to access, with special emphasis
on meeting the needs of women, especially those living in poverty and
female heads of household;
(n)
Formulate and implement policies and programmes that enhance the
access of women agricultural and fisheries producers (including
subsistence farmers and producers, especially in rural areas) to
financial, technical, extension and marketing services; provide access
to and control of land, appropriate infrastructure and technology in
order to increase women’s incomes and promote household food security,
especially in rural areas and, where appropriate, encourage the
development of producer-owned, market-based cooperatives;
(o)
Create social security systems wherever they do not exist, or review
them with a view to placing individual women and men on an equal
footing, at every stage of their lives;
(p)
Ensure access to free or low-cost legal services, including legal
literacy, especially designed to reach women living in poverty;
(q)
Take particular measures to promote and strengthen policies and
programmes for indigenous women with their full participation and
respect for their cultural diversity, so that they have opportunities
and the possibility of choice in the development process in order to
eradicate the poverty that affects them.
59. By multilateral financial and development institutions, including the World
Bank, the International Monetary Fund and regional development institutions, and
through bilateral development cooperation:
(a)
In accordance with the commitments made at the World Summit for Social
Development, seek to mobilize new and additional financial resources
that are both adequate and predictable and mobilized in a way that
maximizes the availability of such resources and uses all available
funding sources and mechanisms with a view to contributing towards the
goal of poverty eradication and targeting women living in poverty;
(b)
Strengthen analytical capacity in order to more systematically
strengthen gender perspectives and integrate them into the design and
implementation of lending programmes, including structural adjustment
and economic recovery programmes;
(c)
Find effective development-oriented and durable solutions to external
debt problems in order to help them to finance programmes and projects
targeted at development, including the advancement of women,
inter alia, through the immediate implementation of the terms of debt
forgiveness agreed upon in the Paris Club in December 1994, which
encompassed debt reduction, including cancellation or other debt
relief measures and develop techniques of debt conversion applied to
social development programmes and projects in conformity with the
priorities of the Platform for Action;
(d)
Invite the international financial institutions to examine innovative
approaches to assisting low-income countries with a high proportion of
multilateral debt, with a view to alleviating their debt burden;
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